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Simon Henson has left an unpaid, custom order of his favorite crullers (extra icing) on Suzanne Hart's hands for the last time. When a stranger comes in at the end of the day and asks for whatever donuts she has left, the proprietor of Donut Hearts is more than happy to sell him the dripping confections. She is less than happy, however, when the gentleman walks next door and starts throwing the donuts at her friend Gabby's thrift shop.
Desmond Ray claims that Gabby Williams stole a priceless diamond brooch and $10,000 in cash mistakenly left in the pocket of a coat that formerly belonged to his elderly Aunt Jean. When Gabby denies the accusation and Suzanne reclaims her crullers, Desmond threatens to settle with them both. He makes good on his threat, in a way–the next day, he is found, murdered, directly between Suzanne's and Gabby's shops. What could be worse for a small business owner? Gabby is the prime suspect for both theft and murder, but swears she's been wrongly accused on both counts. With her state police investigator boyfriend out of town, what else can Suzanne do but find the real killer and prove her friend is innocent?
All the familiar faces, including Suzanne's friends Grace and George, her assistant Emma, and her lovely mother, are back in this sixth book in Beck's cozy mystery series. The author handles difficult topics such as adultery and abuse of the elderly with a light hand, spending equal time on the crime solving and our heroine's relationships. Readers will be interested to know that there could even be wedding bells for someone!
Check the availability of this title in the UNC-Chapel Hill library's catalog.


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To the bored Londoner it's just another tube station but to me it is a beautiful cosy place with a wonderfully modern mall, a very alive and vibrant street market ,great restaurants and plenty for the hungry soul to do , to see, to absorb and soak in and spend a few hours enjoying the best that this place has to offer .
I first visited Angel (one stop before Kings Cross St.Pancras )when I went there to meet P aunty, a very close family friend for many years now and a very doting ,loving and huggable aunt to me . She is also an amazing cook, well read, well travelled and has busloads of patience, not to mention she has complexion that is absolutely peaches and cream and is extremely modest and down to earth.
Well, yesterday I met her for like the third time in the past year at Angel. We walked around , enjoying the early spring sun ,savouring the street food delicacies and discovering the joy of having a lazy cup of tea and an amazing cafe called Euphorium Bakery .
We walked around the street market and ate this awesome falafel wrap ,it has the most divine crunchy fried falafel balls ummmmm and very very tasty aubergines, cauliflower, spicy chilli pickled, fried potato dusted with the most amazing sauce and what not !
If you see the two blokes in the picture,one smiley and one err well Not so smiley 😉 ,you know you are the right place for mindblowingly tasty falafel wraps !
The street market has a butcher, a fish monger ,several fruit and vegetable vendors, carpet sellers ,lingerie stalls , even a makeup stall ! It has all sort of world cuisine on offer ,right from the local jacket potatoes and fish and chips to mid eastern falafels, African jerk chicken, Bangladeshi kebabs ,Vietnamese noodles ,Thai crispy prawns and sooo much more and yes a generous spattering of many pubs and cafe's including the famous chains like StarBucks and Costa for the loyal followers.
Though I strongly suggest landing up without having had breakfast , picking up a falafel wrap as an appetiser, then walking around taking in the vibrancy of the place and then eating to your heart's content at any one of the many food stall, then wandering around the massive mall, indulging in some shopping , strolling around the quiet by lanes and plonking yourself onto an easy chair in one of the many lovely local cafes and sipping away on your latte' or Indian chai and relishing an afternoon well spent .
A view of the massive "Angels's wings" at the entrance to the Mall and a View of the " Angel's Halo" at one of the exits ….
I even managed to get a steal-deal on a book I was looking to buy for some time now from a local charity shop ( I don't know how she does it – By Alison Pearson, a must read for EVERY woman especially if you thrive on a huge guilt conscience of NOT being able to spare enough time for your family because you have a job that you love and are addicted to !, it's a bible for one of my closest female buddies P)
A view of a beautiful flower shop located close to the bakery.
A little rain while we were safely tucked inside the cafe dropped the temperature by a few degrees and ensured I left to get home just in time to make hubbykins a steaming hot cuppa and share a long conversation about how I spent a lovely day out.
Oh yes did I mention that P aunty introduced me to a wonderful Fruit called Longan , it's like a litchi in texture of the skin and the soft watery succulently fresh white fruit hidden inside but with a twist in the form of a sugary sweet caffeine kick concealed in the fruit that explodes with every bite that you take . I managed to gobble quite a large number of them, reluctantly sharing them with my better half 🙂
This is an image of the fruit, that what remains of the LARGE bag she gave me, I know, I know greedy me !
I have posted some pictures below of the fruit, it's delicate skin that can easily be peeled off and globular succulent fruit inside.
In India there is a version of this fruit called Litchi or Lychee , it has a bright red or dull brown skin and the appearance of the fruit inside looks very similar to the Longan . Lychees are more oval in shape though and very different but equally delicious and sweet to taste and also are very succulent , every bite releases a delicious sticky liquid ummmm.
Some images of the Litchi or Lychee I got off the net :
It's at times like this that I imagine how much of effort God put into creating this planet and all that is there on the planet , it is such small everyday pleasures that make me smile.
To those whose mouth is watering after seeing those images please head to China Town or any proper Chinese shop in London and ask for Longan . If you love them as much as I did , write back to me !Please !
I have pasted a few images of my day out below ,hope you enjoy seeing them. Oh yes How can I forget the highlight of the day ?! I touched a LIVE snake and that too a BOA CONSTRICTOR (screaammmmmmm EEEEEEECHHHHH ,yelll , shiver shudder shake shake ..none of that happened , even little kids were touching the slippery guy who seemed to be basking in the glory of so many curious human eyes set on him !) , it is called a Common Boa Constrictor and inhabits rainforests , the other two animals I saw were an Arfican spurred tortoise and a lizard which I think is the Bearded Dragon, a word of praise here for the handlers of these animals who work with a company called the Zoofari , check them out on http://mobilezoo.co.uk/
These handlers were gentle with the animals , very knowledgebale and great with kids too, they also ensured each and every fascinated child and adult got a blob of hand sanitiser after they touched the animals. Kudos to them ! Good work guys and I loved the concept of a mobile zoo and how they raise funds for wildlife ,a very noble thought and deed ..Indeed 🙂
The Zoofari Van :
The crowd around the display area :
Say hello to the Turtle , it's quite massive isn't it ??
Ok that was me hesitating and touching the snake after all, so scale-eee , err never mind !
Well After those animals , feats your eyes on some images of the awesome Euphorium Bakery .
And just as I had left the area the taste of chai still lingering in my mouth ,after bidding goodbye to P Aunty , I was offered a free sample of the New Almond Latte at Starbucks , worth a try I say !
I managed to stuff my camera back into my bag and dragged my exteremly drowsy self to the tube station , but had to click this last one snap as I laughed aloud and people around gave me the look as if to say "Crazy woman laughing all alone ..grumphfh " well you would smirk too after seeing it wouldn't you ??
Hahaha a quirky laugh at the end of a fab day ,all I needed to inspire me to get blogging again !


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June 23, 2011 -- Admissions to treatment programs among people ages 12 and over for alcohol, marijuana, and opiate problems have risen significantly in recent years, according to a new federal report.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) says one of the most notable shifts between 1999 and 2009 was in a rise of admissions related to prescription opiates such as hydrocodone (Lortab, Norco, Vicodin, Zydone), methadone (Dolophine, Methadose), and oxycodone (Endocet, Lynox, OxyContin, Percocet, Tylox). That category almost quadrupled, increasing from 8% of all opiate admissions in 1999 to 33% in 2009.
SAMHSA also says that program treatment admissions related to alcohol, which had decreased from 48% in 1999 to 39% in 2005, increased steadily to 42% in 2009.
The report also says that:
- Alcohol was the leading primary substance of abuse for treatment admissions for all major ethnic and racial groups except people of Puerto Rican descent, who were admitted most frequently for opiate abuse.
- Marijuana admissions rose from 13% in 1999 to 18% in 2009 in the 12 and over age group. About 74% of marijuana admissions involved males and 48% involved non-Hispanic whites.
- Marijuana was the primary or secondary reason for substance abuse treatment in 86% of all admissions involving young people between age 12 and 17.
Admissions for Cocaine Are Decreasing
The report also says admission levels dropped in two categories in the 1999-2009 time frame. Cocaine admissions fell from 14% in 1999 to 9% in 2009. Admissions due to methamphetamine or amphetamines dropped from 9% in 2005 to 6% in 2009. That decline followed an increase from 4% in 1999 to 9% in 2005.
SAMHSA says five substance groups accounted for 96% of the nearly 2 million admissions of people aged 12 and older in 2009 to rehabilitation treatment programs. Of that total:
- 42% were for alcohol
- 21% for opiates
- 18% for marijuana
- 9% for cocaine
- 6% for methamphetamine and/or amphetamines
The SAMHSA report's data come from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), a reporting system involving treatment facilities around the country. The TEDS report says admissions for alcohol abuse alone represented 23% of treatment program admissions among those 12 and over in 2009.
The TEDS statisticians found that the average age to a treatment program for alcohol only was 40.
In a more detailed breakdown of heroin treatment program admissions among those 12 and older, SAMHSA says:
- Admission to programs for heroin use rose from 15% in 1999 to 16% in 2001.
- Heroin represented 92% of all opiate admissions in 1999 but declined to about 67% in 2009.
- 65% of primary heroin admissions involved males.
- Average age of admissions to heroin programs was 35.
"This new report shows the challenge our nation's health system must address as the treatment needs of people with drug and alcohol problems continue to evolve," SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, JD, says in a news release. "People often arrive in treatment programs with multiple problems, including dependency or addiction to multiple substances of abuse. As health care reform continues to improve the delivery of health services in our country, this type of information will increasingly be used to inform the needs of an integrated system of care."


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Stop spending your workout with this awkward machine in hopes of a nice set of thighs or glutes.
Sorry, your attention should be elsewhere. If you're looking to maximally develop these areas learn to squat, lunge, deadlift, sprint, and move optimally rather than wasting your time.
Although this wonderful device provides resistance for both adduction (bringing the legs together) and abduction (spreading the legs apart) it neglects to train the muscles of adduction and abduction as stabilizers, their primary role. Although they provide a burn" to the inner and outer thighs it serves no functional purpose and will not further "tone or shape" a muscle.
These machines are useless.
Although they provide a burn" to the inner and outer thighs it serves no functional purpose and will not further "tone or shape" a muscle. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as spot reduction. Contrary to belief you can't change the shape or tone of your muscles– your insertion points aren't going anywhere. If you want to a muscle to show visibly the issue isn't muscle shape, but subcutaneous fat covering the muscle.
The adductor muscles are responsible for adducting the leg away from midline at the hip-joint. These muscles have multiple functions beyond simple adduction as you see below:
- Adductor longus: Hip adduction, hip flexion
- Adductor brevis: Hip adduction, hip flexion
- Adductor magnus: hip extension, hip adduction, hip flexion
- Adductor minimus: hip adduction
- Pectineus: Hip adduction, hip flexion
- Gracilus: Hip adduction, hip flexion, knee flexion
As stated in described by their group name, the abductors abduct, or move the legs away from midline in the body.These muscles have multiple functions beyond simple abduction as you see below:
The Muscles responsible for abduction include:
- Gluteus Medius: Hip abduction
- Gluteus Minimis: Hip abduction, hip internal rotation
- Tensor Fasica Latae : Hip abduction, hip internal rotation
Isolating these muscles services little purpose, as there are few instances these muscles work as a solo-primary mover in exercise. Muscles that control abduction and adduction must work synergistically to keep the femur (upper leg bone) in proper alignment and maintain frontal plane stability. Neglecting these functions with purely isolated training leaves the body open for knee injuries due to poor stability/mobility in the hip and knee and flexion based back injuries.
Opt For These instead:
All lower body unilateral exercises and variations including: deadlifts, Lunges, Squats (any variation), step ups, sprinting, banded shuffle walks, hip thrusts, bird-dogs, fire-hydrants and banded monster walks.
Training the adductors and abductors is NOT a bad idea, but using the "Yes-NO"machine is a waste of time. Muscles DO need to function in isolation, but overpowering their ability without training them dynamically is recipe for injury.
Plus, I'm not sure this is how you want to see your co-workers during lunch. Avoid the adductor abductor machine, it has no place in your routine.


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This kimono fabric is scrap that has come from a furisode kimono. The furisode came to us in an unfinished state, so we took it apart and are selling its panels. There is some gold embody using a couching technique on this panel. Condition: B+ Measurements: 15 inches wide by 72 inches long
Furisode Scrap Fabric
All orders ship from NW Ohio with a tracking number and $50 insurance via USPS. Customers will be sent an email when their order is shipped, which includes their tracking number.
Our international orders are shipped via USPS with a flat rate box. We ship out of NW Ohio in the USA.
This is a quick guide to kimono and obi accessories. This is not a complete listing, and if you need more advanced help please contact us or check out the reference materials we suggest in the book review section of our online kimono store. These are just quick reference lists tailored for beginners.
- Kimono Kitsuke Accessory List (feminine):
- 1 juban (kimono underwear)
- 2 eri shin (collar stiffeners)
- 1 obi ita (obi stiffener)
- 1 obi with its cordinating accessories (hanhaba/nagoya/fukuro/maru).
- Optional accessories include haori, and hakama.
- Kimono Kitsuke Accessory List (masculine):
- 1 Koshihimo
- 1 Juban
- 1 Obi
- Optional accessories include: netsuke, inro, hakama, and haori.
- Obi Kitsuke Accessory List (Nagoya/Fukuro/Maru):
- 1 makura
- 1 obijime
- 1 obiage
- 1 obidome (Hanhana obi do not require any accessories to wear)
We encourage our customers to explore our online kimono store and refer to sections like our book review page to further education themselves about authentic traditional Japanese kimono.
- Kimono Kitsuke Accessory List (feminine):


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Recorded amid the singer's battles with addiction and depression and under the cloud of a rocky relationship, Mary J. Blige's 1994 sophomore record, My Life, was rawer and more confessional than any other R&B album of its era, a sorrowful, ballad-heavy work fraught with unanswered pleas for happiness. The singer has long since put that turbulent chapter of her life behind her. Blige famously vowed No More Drama on her 2001 album (which followed a pair of records that had already toned down the drama considerably), and she's stayed true to the promise, framing herself as a model of stability and contentment on her subsequent albums.
Despite its loaded title, My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1) doesn't return to the dire emotional stakes of the first My Life, nor does it much feel like a sequel. The record makes time for some of the old-school soul that the 1994 original is best remembered for (most gloriously on the exuberant single "25/8"), but no more so than any other recent Blige album. It's less electronic than 2009's pop-leaning Stronger With Each Tear, but it's still plenty up-tempo, ceding itself to the dance floor with the Busta Rhymes feature "Next Level" and a somewhat out of place Euro-house cover of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody." Although he signs off on the project on a spoken intro track, My Life producer Sean Combs is otherwise absent, replaced behind the boards by the usual tag team of high-end producers.
What My Life II lacks in a single vision, though, it makes up for with consistently rousing performances from Blige, whose radiant voice has only grown fuller and bluesier with time. My Life II doesn't quite rank among Blige's greatest works (its closing ballads are a little toothless), but it nonetheless marks a rare achievement: Blige is now 10 albums into her career, and she has yet to make a bad one.


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RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.4 was just released! Grab it either from SourceForge or SVN (see also web viewer, javadoc). This release updates RSTA as well as the sister projects AutoComplete, RSTALanguageSupport, and SpellChecker, and adds yet another sister project: RSTAUI! Here's the complete list of what's new:
- Updated translations: Chinese (peter_barnes), Russian (Nadiya), Polish (Chris), Spanish (Leonardo), Brazilian Portuguese (Pat), and Korean (Changkyoon).
- Removed superfluous build warnings from projects when building with Ant 1.8+ (includeantruntime).
- HTML, JSP, and PHP syntax highlighting now also highlight embedded CSS.
- Background color highlighting for "secondary" languages (such as CSS and JS in HTML, JSP, and PHP).
- Added code folding for Lisp and Clojure.
- Minor Clojure syntax highlighting updates.
- Changed default font to Consolas on Windows Vista and 7.
- Decreased memory usage required for regex find and replace operations.
- Improved performance of Mark Occurrences, especially when there are lots and lots of marked occurrences.
- Added E4X highlighting to JavaScriptTokenMaker (can toggle on and off via a static property).
- Added a property so that, when bracket matching is enabled, you can choose to have both brackets highlighted instead of just the "opposite" one.
- Fix to RTextScrollPane class to facilitate using it in the NetBeans GUI designer.
- Fixed misaligned icons in row header when code folding is enabled.
- Fixed bug: FoldManager incorrectly auto-expanded deeply-nested folds for some edits that did not affect those folds.
- Fixed bug: wrong initial width of line number margin when calling Gutter#setLineNumberingStartIndex(int).
- GoToMemberWindow: Fixed occasional NPE.
- TextEditorPane: Fixed bug: clear undo stack and dirty state when "loading" a new file.
- TextEditorPane: Now automatically scrolls to top of file on load().
- Fixed bug: NPE in DumbCompleteWordAction in some circumstances (whitespace at beginning of file).
- TokenMakerFactory now allows user-defined TokenMakers to be loaded via different ClassLoaders.
- Added template completions. You can now create completions for constructs that have arbitrary structure and take any number of parameters, such as for-loops and other common boilerplate code.
- Fixed memory leak when uninstalling AutoCompletes from text areas.
- Tremendous updates to JavaScript code completion and syntax checking, all done by steve. We now use Rhino 1.7R4 for parsing. JS is now by far the best-supported language in RSTALanguageSupport.
- JavaLanguageSupport: Much better display of Javadoc links in Javadoc completion popup.
- New (optional) library providing fully functional, localized dialogs for Find and Replace operations in RSyntaxTextArea. Supports searching forward and backward, regex searching, match case, mark all, and replace all. The actual search operations are delegated to the RSTA library's built-in SearchEngine class.
- More common dialogs will be added to this library in the next release. More information about this in a future blog post!


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I have listed below the reasons why I am "exempt" from the mandate. Obviously item #6 is the most important.
(1) I do not object to electronically submitting federal or state income tax returns to the IRS or state tax authorities. I acknowledge and sympathize with the Internal Revenue Service's desire to have returns submitted electronically. I also acknowledge that submitting returns directly to the IRS electronically reduces the potential for error by eliminating the "middle-man" step of having someone transcribe a written 1040 into the IRS software system. I would gladly submit, on my client's behalf and if they do not choose to "opt-out" based on personal preferences, the federal income tax returns I prepare electronically if I could. I currently, whenever possible, and when not specifically told not to by my client, submit full-year resident NJ-1040 state income tax returns electronically directly to New Jersey via the NJWebFile system available at the website of the New Jersey Division of Taxation
(2) I have been preparing 1040s for a fee since February of 1972. During the past almost 39 years I have never used flawed and expensive tax preparation software to prepare a federal income or payroll tax return, and I have no intention of unnecessarily incurring substantial expense to purchase such flawed tax preparation software.
(3) The very minor advantages to me that tax preparation software might provide does not justify the additional substantial expense. On average, I would not save any time by using tax preparation software instead of preparing the returns manually. The resulting 1040 or 1040A would be no more accurate, as the finished return would need to be subject to the same checking and verification process as a manually prepared return. Using tax preparation software would substantially waste paper and printer ink, adding to the cost of purchase and annual update. I find that with the NJWebFile system I use at least twice as much paper, and ink, in printing out copies of the submitted return than when prepared manually.
(4) The only way I can currently, properly, and efficiently submit completed federal income tax returns directly to the Internal Revenue Service is by using flawed and expensive tax preparation software. As I do not use tax preparation software I therefore cannot submit my returns to the IRS electronically.
(5) Several states that mandate e-filing currently exempt preparers who do not use tax preparation software.
(6) I do not "file" my clients' income tax returns. I prepare the return manually and give/send the finished returns to the client, with a non-stamped addressed envelope, and the client(s) sign(s) the return and mails it directly to the IRS themselves. For purposes of §6011(e)(3) and these regulations only, an individual income tax return is considered to be "filed" by a tax return preparer or a specified tax return preparer if the preparer submits the tax return to the IRS on the taxpayer's behalf, either electronically (by e-file or other magnetic media) or in non-electronic or non-magnetic media (paper) form. Submission of an individual income tax return by a tax return preparer or a specified tax return preparer in non-electronic form includes the direct or indirect transmission, sending, mailing or otherwise delivering of the paper tax return to the IRS by the preparer, any member, employee, or agent of the preparer, or any member, employee, or agent of the preparer's firm, and includes any act or acts of assistance beyond providing filing or delivery instructions to the taxpayer. If the preparer files no returns whatsoever on the client's behalf, the preparer would never meet the definition of a specified tax return preparer. I file no returns whatsoever on the client's behalf, so I do not meet the definition of a specified tax return preparer under the regulations for the e-file mandate.
So – does anyone have any comments?


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Event Information
Date and Time
Online Event
About this Event
The Athena Network is THE LEADING INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS CLUB FOR FEMALE EXECUTIVES AND ENTREPRENEURS.
The Athena Network Nottingham is a non-competitive and fun networking, sharing, learning and business doing environment. Members gain a cooperative platform to promote their business and access The Athena Network International and other resources. Only one member business from each business sector is allowed per group.
Vicky Stanton is the Regional Director for Athena here in Nottingham. She said "I am passionate about supporting women in business to be the best they can be and to have every opportunity to showcase that. I was a member of the Athena Network for just over 2 years when I decided to invest in the business because I had made many connections and friends, found excellent suppliers and had the opportunity to welcome some of the other members as my clients. In addition, Athena gives every member the opportunity to develop themselves and their business and that is something I want to be a part of"
"The Athena Network supports women entrepreneurs and executives at whatever stage they are in their business. The support and encouragement given by members to each other is unrivalled in my opinion."
"Our meetings are structured, interactive, informative and professional whilst being fun, elegant and relaxed. This provides the perfect combination for building and maintaining strong business partnerships as well as friendship. They are a pivotal meeting in the month for many of our members, who report leaving energised, refreshed and with new connections, collaboration possibilities and of course an extended network"
Our Langar group will run on the 1st Tuesday of each month on-going. (excl August & December) at Langar Hall from 12noon - 2pm.
To find out more about Athena, visit our website www.theathenanetwork.com or call Vicky on 07818 086939 or 0115 936 1250
"I would love to welcome you as a visitor to the Athena Network in Nottingham so to book your place as a Visitor to this group, please either book here through Eventbrite, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
We are unable to accept visitors to the group where there is an overlap of Profession, so please check here before booking and seek clarification before booking if you are unsure. Thank you.
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text: Hindu calendar also known as Panchang is traditionally used in Hinduism for looking at auspicious moments. Panchang is ancient Hindu calendar that helps to identify best days and times of each month. Not to forget that these are Hindu months and not months belonging as per English calendar. Hindu calendar basically followers the Moon and not the Sun, therefore we ...Read More »


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Green groups wasted no time announcing a protest in front of the White House to claim a mandate for action, but partisan gridlock remains.
Even before President Obama took the stage for his victory speech last night, environmentalists were laying out their expectations for his second term: act on climate change, whether it's through sweeping legislative action, regulatory rules or decisions like blocking the Keystone XL pipeline.
Just minutes after the race was called Tuesday night, the group 350.org announced a Keystone XL protest on Nov. 18. Young climate activists who joined the celebration outside the White House held up a sign saying "Sandy Demands Climate Action Now," a reference to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.
One line in Obama's victory speech gave the green groups hope that he might act.
"We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet," the president said.
But taking action to achieve those goals isn't going to be easy. While more than a dozen legislators targeted by environmental groups for their votes on clean energy and climate change bills were defeated Tuesday, neither chamber switched parties. With the status quo likely to continue in Congress, environmental groups say they'll pressure the White House to continue, or amplify, its work of the last four years.
"When I listened to his speech, I was happy to hear that he talked about the problem of climate change in the category of things the country can agree on," said Lou Leonard, managing director of climate change for the World Wildlife Fund. "The president needs to continue to build on that narrative in the transition. We need him to join the conversation we're having about climate change and lead that conversation in Washington."
Eileen Claussen, president of Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said Obama "has an opportunity and an obligation to press the case for stronger climate action."
"No one is better placed than the president to help Americans understand both the risks of a warming climate and the opportunities of a clean-energy transition," Claussen said in a statement.
There's even a push for Obama to take a larger role on the world's stage. In a statement congratulating Obama, a spokesman for United Nations secretary general Ban-Ki Moon said the secretary general looks forward to working with the president on "tackling the challenges posed by climate change," among other issues. And Tom Mitchell, head of climate change for the Overseas Development Institute, a British think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues, urged Obama to "show the kind of leadership that would put him amongst the all time greats," including going to the international climate talks that begin later this month in Doha, Qatar.
Obama's biggest challenge, however, will be getting legislation through Congress. Many environmental groups expect that, given Republican opposition in the House, the administration will continue using its regulatory authority to pass environmentally friendly regulations. In Obama's first term, the Environmental Protection Agency set the first greenhouse gas limits on new power plants, proposed the first national standard for mercury from coal facilities and bolstered fuel economy rules for passenger vehicles.
By the end of the year the EPA also is expected to release a rule that would limit pollution from existing power plants and refineries. Before the election, there were reports that the EPA was trying to push the power plant rule out quickly, in case Mitt Romney won the presidency.
"For the next couple of months, we expect to see the EPA just finishing the business at hand. Chief among that is addressing pollution from power plants and what waters can be regulated under the Clean Water Act," said David Goldston, senior adviser to the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund.
In a second term, the EPA could consider rules governing coal ash waste and ground-level pollution, analysts say.
Groups that generally oppose action on climate change are, like the environmental groups, girding for what might be coming from the White House.
"This election really didn't change much in terms of the dynamic in Washington in the sense that President Obama stays in the White House and Congress stays the same," said James Taylor, senior fellow for environmental policy for the Heartland Institute, a noted climate skeptic group. "So we'll probably just see this battle where EPA is taking severe measures and a different path than Congress might have taken."
On Wednesday the Institute for Energy Research, a free-market research group, issued a statement warning that "Within a few days, we can expect the EPA and other agencies to start issuing the regulations they have been withholding until after the election. These regulations will drive up the price of oil, coal, and natural gas by making their exploration, production, transportation and consumption more costly and uncertain."
Eric Pooley, senior vice president for strategy and communications for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), said his group already plans to push the federal and state governments to look beyond carbon and address "climate accelerants" like methane and refrigerants. On methane, Pooley said, that means addressing potential leakage from natural gas extraction.
"There are no laws on the books, federal or state, targeted at methane leakage," Pooley said. "We have the technology to stop these leaks, but we haven't really measured the leakage rate. We think there's a place for federal and state regulation on this."
EDF has been criticized by some green groups for supporting hydraulic fracturing, the controversial gas extraction method, albeit with restrictions. But Pooley said it's important to use natural gas as a bridge fuel and to ensure that the extraction is as safe and clean as possible, which requires federal leadership. The EPA is studying fracking, but it's unclear if any regulation will come out of that research.
Like most of Washington, environmental groups will be watching how Obama deals with Congress on the approaching fiscal cliff. If a budget deal isn't reached to reduce the national debt, across-the-board cuts through the budgetary sequester could go into effect in January with potentially dire consequences for the environment, they say.
The sequester could mean the closure of some National Parks, the elimination of some National Wildlife Refuges and cuts to coastal management programs, according to a fact sheet assembled by NRDC, The Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the National Parks Conservation Association. The budget trimming could also mean cuts to EPA research and air monitoring programs, reductions in clean water infrastructure and cuts to energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
"The environmental community has a lot at stake ... Sequestration could cripple environmental programs now and into the future," said NRDC Action's Goldston.
Goldston said a deal should include raising money by cutting subsidies for, "industries that are mature, wealthy and produce pollutants."
Environmental groups say the Democrats' slightly expanded majority in the Senate offers some hope for extending the wind production tax credit for renewable energy. They predict the industry will face layoffs and other setbacks if the credit is allowed to expire at the end of the year.
"These are proven, bipartisan job-creating tax measures that are up for extension or renewal. We're putting a lot of effort to getting Congress to meet the president on those issues," said David Foster, executive director of the BlueGreen Alliance, which represents a variety of labor and environmental groups. "Voters, I think, did say resounding say yes to the president's clean energy job strategy and I hope Republicans listen to that."
The EDF's Pooley said the administration should at least start a conversation about instituting a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system.
"Ultimately if you're serious about cutting carbon emissions, you've got to price it," Pooley said. "We're a long way from having this debate, let alone understanding what legislation would look like. But there needs to be a conversation about solutions, and not just a list of demands from the environmental community."
The NRDC's Goldston said the environmental community will be pressuring the administration to act on this and other environmental issues, starting today.
"We will be making sure the administration knows that the public wants more action on climate change," Goldston says. "That's going to be important for whatever battles follow."
Environmental Groups Celebrate Election Wins
Environmental groups have been encouraged by the results of some House, Senate and statewide races. Citizens Determined to Elect Clean Energy Champions, which is led by a coalition including climate scientist and activist Bill McKibben, assembled a list of 14 "climate heroes" who had backed clean energy in the past. Eleven of those candidates won, and one race was too close to call at the time of this posting.
The victors include Democratic Senate candidates Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), Martin Heinrich (New Mexico), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Chris Murphy (Connecticut) and Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts). House candidates Julia Brownley (California), Ami Bera (California), Lois Capps (California), John Delaney (Maryland), Fran Pavley (California) and Carol Shea-Porter (New Hampshire) also won.
In the undecided race, Jay Inslee leads in the tight race for Washington governor, but challenger Rob McKenna had not conceded as of Wednesday afternoon.
The League of Conservation Voters saw impressive results in its "dirty dozen" campaign to remove 12 national candidates they said had consistently voted against clean energy and conservation. Eleven of those candidates, including Mitt Romney, were defeated.
Among the defeated were Republican Senate contenders Dennis Rehberg (Montana), George Allen (Virginia), Josh Mandel (Ohio), Heather Wilson (New Mexico) and Linda McMahon (Connecticut). Joining them were House candidates Tim Holden (Pennsylvania), Joe Walsh (Illinois), Francisco Canseco (Texas), Dan Lungren (California) and Ann Marie Buerkle (New York).
Buerkle, Lungren, Canseco and Walsh were also on LCV's "Flat Earth Five" list of Congressional members that have denied climate change. One member on the list—Michigan Rep. Dan Benishek—held onto his seat.
"This election was supposed to be about wealthy Big Oil-backed special interests spending unprecedented resources to wipe pro-environment candidates off the map," said Gene Karpinski, the League of Conservation Voters' president, in a statement. "But voters chose a different course—re-electing President Obama and sending environmental champions to Congress to confront the climate crisis and keep our nation moving forward towards a clean energy future."
Correction: An earlier version of this article said the UN interenational climate talks in Doha, Qatar were being held next year. The talks will take place Nov. 26-Dec. 7, 2012.


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- Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour, defrocked cleric, transferred to Yazd Prison.
- Human Rights activist Navid Khanjani has been transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr prison.
- Hossein Ronaghi Maleki transferred to Tabriz prison quarantine in preparation for transfer to Evin.
- Isa Saharkhiz transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr prison.
- 6 of the earthquake volunteer aid workers arrested in Azerbaijan have been transferred to Evin 350:
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- Rashid Esmaili member of Policy Council of Advar Tahkim (Alumni Society ) was arrested by IRGC agents.
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- Journalist/Human Rights activist Shiva Nazarahari sentenced to 4 years + 74 lashes reported to Evin to start serving her sentence.
- Hamed and Jamal Sheikhi arrested in Marivan and sent to Saqez prison.
- Popular poet Mohammad-Reza Ali-Payam (Haloo) released on 100 million toman bail.
- After 3 years imprisonment, journalist Masoud Bastani is released on furlough.
- Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani released, acquitted of apostasy.
- National-Religious activist Alireza Rejaei has been released from Evin on a 3 day furlough.
- Abdollah Shahbazi, jailed Iranian historian, released.
- Ali Tase released from Marivan prison after 2 months detention.
- Obeid Zarei released from Marivan prison after 2 months detention.
- These aid workers were released from custody:
- Morteza Esmailpour
- Danial Hasani
- Esmail Salmanpour
- Saeed Shirzad
- Bahram Shojaei
D-Other News
- After writing a letter to the Chief of the Judiciary, former Tehran mayor Mohammad Tavasoli summoned to court on a case that was closed 3 years ago.
News of injustice in Iran
- Farzad Ahmadi, a labour activist and tailor, sentenced to 4 months in prison in Sanandaj.
- Court of Appeals has upheld a 3 year sentence of Maryam Alangi. Her husband Mohsen Dogmechi died in prison last year.
- The Appeals Court in Tehran has upheld a 5 year sentence for the Child Rights activist Samin Ehsani.
- Court of Appeal has sentenced Zahra Mansouri to 2 years in prison and 5 years suspended.
- Amanollah Mostaghim's 5 year sentence upheld by Appeals.
- Shahnaz Sagvand, wife of jailed worker Ali Nejati on trial, charged with spreading propaganda against the system through an interview with Foreign Media.
- Gonabadi Dervish, Nosrat Tabasi, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
- 11 people who were transferred from Ghezel Hesar prison to Evin Ward 240 were hanged, among them 5 Afghans.
- A man was hanged in public on Monday in Shahrood.
- Verdicts have been issued for 40 people involved in the bank fraud case. 4 have received the death penalty and 2 have received life in prison.
University – Culture
- Gender Segregation forces girls to drop out from school in the villages of Yasuj due to lack of accommodation.
- Qaraati: Iranian Universities should be equipped with "temporary marriage" headquarters.
- Iran censures text messages containing the word "dollar" following collapse of its currency.
Iranian Economy
- $1 = 2305 Toman on Saturday, 2430 on Sunday, 2600 on Monday, and 2500 (Euro 3250 ) on Tuesday.
- Black Market estimated to account for 21% of Iranian economy.
- Two manufacturing factories in Arak and Esfahan closed in one week; 600 workers lost their jobs.
- Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Mines: 38% decrease in car production in the first 5 months of the year.
- Iran's Central Bank went bankrupt.
- Iran surpasses Bolivia to become number one in the world in inequality in distribution of wealth.
- Rent prices increase by a staggering 60% says Iran's Census Bureau.
Iran Abroad
- Sierra Leone takes 10 Iranian ships off register.
- Iran seeks to reopen London embassy; UK refuses.
- Egypt denies in talks to buy Iranian oil.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, slammed Bahrain's imposition of jail terms on 13 leading opposition figures in the kingdom.
Politics in Iran
- The Majlis has set up a special joint friendship group to boost parliamentary ties with Syria, Egypt, Palestine and Morocco.
- Protest against the American film caricaturing Mohammad in front of the Swiss Embassy.
- 100 teachers in Hamadan protested deceptive announcement of Minister of Education claiming 15% rise been implemented.
- Iran ambulance personnel get equipped with teargas.
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REDMOND, Washington - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted yesterday that nobody within the company understands its software licenses.
In a surprise statement, Ballmer revealed that nobody actually understands those license conditions you find on virtually all software packs.
"We had long since realized that none of our legal team could offer any explanation as to what these licenses actually mean in human language" commented Ballmer, "but we had always assumed that there was a legal uber-eagle somewhere on campus who did understand them. Thus, we didn't worry too much."
A recent questionnaire of the Redmond legal department concerning the usage-rights of Windows Server had shown that from 250 lawyers who took part in the survey, 250 completely different opinions were submitted. This raised concerns that the originator of these licensing documents should be asked to come forward and explain what they actually mean. At that point the astonishing truth came out, which is that no such person exists. There is, in fact, no super-lawyer involved in their creation.
"I don't understand how SBS licensing works. From what I can find on Google and the MS Websites, neither does anyone else :)" commented Liam Black, head of the Microsoft Legal Division.
On enquiring where the license documents actually come from, a spokesperson for the legal department led Mr Ballmer to a somewhat outdated computer sitting in the corner of the office, attached to a dotmatrix printer. "Like all good software solutions, it's really very easy to use" he explained, "When the coding team turn-out a new product, we just enter the product name in this box, and press Enter. The licensing computer does the rest."
Examination of this computer, which dates from the early 90's, revealed that its core component depended on code produced during a brief venture into the field of AI, or artifical intelligence. The AI department, as it then was, had been tasked with writing software which would accurately simulate the responses of a human brain, thereby enabling computers to make decisions on their own inititative, even in unfamiliar situations.
With Microsoft licensing, you need to ask if you need a license. If they say yes, hang up and call back. The next response may be no.
Whilst the AI experiments had met with only moderate success, one interesting outcome was the finding that a simple change to one parameter would instead enable a computer to do the reverse, that is, to produce output which is totally opaque to the reasoning processes of the human brain. Furthermore, the algorithms involved in producing the output, owing to the reversal of the operating mode, would ensure that, to a high degree of certainty, no precise meaning of any kind could be ascribed to the machine's output.
At the time it was thought that this interesting but arcane programming quirk had no practical application, thus it was quickly forgotten. This made it all the more of a surprise to find the code still in active use in a production environment, decades later.
A closer inspection of the system indicated that licenses were in fact being created from a substantial database of legalese paragraphs. These paragraphs had evidently been culled from a number of sources, the most prominent being the licenses of early DOS or Windows 3.1 programs.The software would compile a new product-license by way of selecting and combining paragraphs which matched certain criteria in the name of the new product. The reverse-engineered AI component would then reorder and recombine these paragraphs as necessary to ensure that the resulting document could not be interpreted to have any fixed or definite meaning.
Commenting on these disclosures, Ballmer appeared surprisingly unconcerned. As he nonchalantly added, "Where copyright disputes are concerned, the actual law is of little relevance, the overriding factor in success being that of having the more expensive lawyer."
In a further revelation, it has been discovered that the GNU Public License, so heavily favored by Linux coders, was created using a reverse-engineered copy of the Microsoft AI code. This discovery has been greeted with fury by Redmond, who have accused the open-source community of being "Bl**dy pirates!" Through a rare oversight the original AI code did not have any license document attached to it, so Microsoft are powerless to prevent its use in this manner.
It has similarly been disclosed that no open-source coder has yet been found who claims to understand the GPL. "We just add it to our T&C because it looks so cool" a Linux coder by the name of 'hQT33g&¬' remarked.
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Amazing news on the science wires this morning as - by an amazing coincidence, just ahead of the centenary of the tragedy ocean collision plunge sinking of famous real-life blockbuster movie ocean liner Titanic - we read the headline: Titanic Disaster 'Unlikely to Happen Again'!
That might seem obvious as the Titanic remains firmly on the Atlantic seabed onto which she sank after a rare conjunction of the Moon, by sheer fluke, hurled an iceberg into her path in a freak mass drowning destruction horror incident fashioned of pure human-drama box office gold.
The chances of the Titanic being raised somehow from the freezing ocean depths, restored lovingly once more to her full fin-de-siècle glory (complete with inadequate lifeboats, incompetent officers and foolish owners hell-bent on a risky northern shortcut) and then crammed with a quirky complement of passengers bringing with them a medley of interwoven, compelling human stories - doubtless including a pair of star-crossed young lovers, plight made yet more poignant by their overshadowing appointment with fate - would seem so slim as to be nonexistent. But yet, there's the headline - apparently acknowledging this as a definite possibility.
What could this mean? We read on, and find the disappointing reality.
A ship science expert, Professor Ajit Shenoi, says that a seafaring tragedy on the scale of the Titanic disaster is unlikely to happen again.
Offside! We here on the Reg boffinry desk thought the science media had already plumbed the depths pretty deep with the centennial rash of recent, utterly spurious, here's-one-I-did-earlier Titanic-related "scientific discoveries" (lunar conjunction, duff rivets, James Cameron finds basically nothing at the bottom of the Mariana Trench etc etc). But this is a new low. We don't blame Prof Shenoi - we rather suspect he was dragooned into this project by the PR staff at his university, and we'd lay long odds he had nothing to do with the headline.
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Letter dated - 11/19/2012 U.S. Department of Transportation
November 19, 2012
Michael P. Huerta
Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation
800 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20591
Electronic Address: http://www.regulations.gov
(Docket No. FAA-2006-26408; Notice No.12-03; RIN 2120-AJ61)
Re: Comments on FAA's Proposed Repair Stations Rule
Dear Acting Administrator Huerta:
The U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) submits the following comments on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Proposed Repair Stations Rule.1 FAA's proposed rule would amend FAA regulations for aviation repair stations by revising the system of ratings, repair station certification requirements, and the regulations on repair stations providing maintenance for air carriers. FAA states that the proposed rule is necessary because portions of the existing repair station regulations do not reflect current repair station aircraft maintenance and business practices, or advances in aircraft technology, and that the proposed rule would modernize FAA regulations to keep pace with current industry standards and practices.2 A more detailed discussion of the rulemaking is provided below.
Office of Advocacy
Advocacy was established pursuant to Pub. L. 94-305 to represent the views of small entities before federal agencies and Congress. Advocacy is an independent office within SBA, so the views expressed by Advocacy do not necessarily reflect the views of SBA or the Administration. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA),3 as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA),4 gives small entities a voice in the rulemaking process. For all rules that are expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, federal agencies are required by the RFA to assess the impact of the proposed rule on small business and to consider less burdensome alternatives. Moreover, Executive Order 132725 requires federal agencies to notify Advocacy of any proposed rules that are expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities and to give every appropriate consideration to any comments on a proposed or final rule submitted by Advocacy. Further, both Executive Order 13272 and a recent amendment to the RFA, codified at 5 U.S.C. 604(a)(3), require the agency to include in any final rule the response of the agency to any comments filed by Advocacy, and a detailed statement of any change made to the proposed rule as a result of the comments.
As discussed in the proposed rule, FAA is proposing to amend its regulations governing aviation repair stations in several ways. First, the proposed rule would update Part 145's system of rating repair station capabilities from the current eight ratings to five in order to reflect current practices and technologies.6 Second, as part of the certification process, the proposed rule would inquire whether the applicant has had a repair station certificate that has been revoked (or voluntarily surrendered during an enforcement proceeding), and that housing and facilities and other items must be in place at the time of certification. Third, the proposed rule clarifies that when a repair station performs work as a maintenance provider to an air carrier, the repair station must perform that work in accordance with the maintenance instructions provided by the air carrier or air operator.
According to FAA, the proposed rule would impact some 4,105 repair stations,7 of which some 2,354 are considered small entities under North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code 488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation), having revenues of $7 million or less.8 In its Regulatory Evaluation, the agency also analyzes the impact on firms based on their number of employees, i.e., small, 10 or few employees; medium, 11 – 199 employees; and large, greater than 200 employees.9 FAA concludes that the initial compliance cost of the proposed rule to a small repair station would average about $4,000, which would be less than one percent of the average annual revenue of all small firms, and less than two percent of annual revenue for firms that earn more than $200,000.10 Accordingly, FAA has certified under the RFA that the proposed rule would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Small Entities Have Expressed Concerns About the Proposed Rule
In response to the publication of the proposed rule, Advocacy hosted a small business roundtable on November 5, 2012 to discuss the proposed rule and obtain small business input on it. Staff from FAA and FAA's Repair Station Branch attended the roundtable and provided a background briefing on the proposed rule. In addition, representatives from the Aeronautical Repair Station Association and the Aviation Electronics Association provided their assessment of the proposed rule. The following comments are reflective of the issues raised during the roundtable meeting and in subsequent communications with small business representatives.
- Small entity representatives raised several concerns about the proposed rule. Small entity representatives at the roundtable stated that they support certain elements of the proposed rule, such as those that truly "modernize" and "harmonize" the existing rule with international regulatory and business practices. However, they expressed concern with other provisions of the proposed rule that, they say, would have unintended consequences and be problematic to enforce. Specifically:
- The proposed operations specifications are unnecessary and overly complicated for the purposes stated in the preamble;
- The transition from "class ratings" to "capability lists" on operations specifications would be unmanageable given FAA's limited resources;
- Keeping "bad actors" out of the industry without FAA taking responsibility for establishing proper due process places an unnecessary, unfair, and unenforceable burden on the industry. Of particular concern is the "reapplication" process that ignores the industry's burden and the FAA's limited resources; and,
The current regulations state that a certificate is good until it is surrendered, revoked, or suspended; however, the proposed rule would suspend the certificate if a NEW application is not submitted. Apparently, in the past, the updated manual had to be submitted to FAA on or before the compliance date, but the certificate continued in effect while FAA reviewed and "accepted" the new manual. Attendees suggested that FAA would be able to continue the existing practice if it would scale back the operations specification separation and "bad actor" provisions, which the attendees view as unnecessary and unenforceable.
- Small entity representatives believe FAA has omitted costs and understated the cost of complying with the rule. FAA's Regulatory Evaluation and RFA certification only include cost estimates for application for the new rating system and revisions to the repair station manual. However, small entity representatives at the roundtable identified several possible omissions or understatements of costs. For example, small entity representatives stated that:
- FAA uses current industry practices rather than compliance with current regulations as the baseline for its cost estimates, which may understate the cost of the proposed rule. It would be helpful if the agency used compliance with existing regulations as the baseline or presented a dual-baseline analysis.
- Cost estimates associated with recertification are understated. For example, small entity representatives stated that the recertification process will involve rewriting repair station manuals, quality control manuals, list of capabilities, and the repair station training program, which will be a time-consuming and expensive effort. Further, attendees noted that the proposed rule states that the repair station manual and quality control manual must be "acceptable to the Administrator," and the repair station training program must be approved; however, the Agency has not published an updated draft Advisory Circular (AC) that clearly identifies the standards by which the manuals and programs will be evaluated;
- It is unlikely that FAA will be able to process nearly 5,000 ratings applications and repair station manual approvals within the designated twenty-four months, which could lead to significant delays and disruptions that are not accounted for. Existing certifications would no longer be valid twenty-four months after the effective date of the new rule. Small entity representatives recommended that contingency plans be developed in the event that FAA is unable to meet the high demand for approvals;
- FAA states that the cost for maintaining a current list of products would be minimal; however, small entity representatives stated that this process would be time-consuming and would likely be performed by senior managers rather than clerical employees (especially in small repair stations). FAA has not provided cost estimates for these activities;
- The provision that would end space-available housing and facilities practices would be highly problematic and unduly expensive for small repair stations and avionics shops that often lease space from larger entities on an as-needed basis. Further, no cost estimates are provided for securing permanent facilities in advance, which would alter existing practices. The proposed rule suggests that all equipment, materials, personnel, and data must be on-site during the entire application and certification process, which would be costly and impractical;
- No training costs associated with the new certification requirements are provided. Further, the new training mandates are open-ended and vague, making an estimate of their cost difficult or impossible. One attendee stated that the expansion of the current training program could triple current training costs;
- The new supervisory personnel provisions would require supervisors to oversee ALL work (rather than only work performed by individuals who are unfamiliar with the methods, techniques, practices, etc.), which means that either: 1) every task would require a minimum of two people (doubling labor costs); or, 2) every mechanic would have to be a supervisor. This would represent a significant increase in labor costs that are not included in the analysis;
- Repair stations lack the knowledge and ability to track parties whose certificates have been revoked (or who voluntarily surrendered them during an enforcement proceeding), making the cost of complying with the "bad actor" provisions highly unpredictable or impossible. Repair stations have no way of knowing who these disqualified people are. Small entity representatives suggested that FAA should maintain a list of disqualified persons if the agency adopts this proposal; and,
- FAA states that a "Quality System" requirement could be included in the final rule (or may be addressed in a separate rulemaking), but does not specifically propose such a requirement or provide any cost estimate for it.
- FAA's Regulatory Flexibility Act certification is problematic. The RFA requires each agency to prepare and publish with each proposed rule an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) unless the head of the agency can certify that the proposed rule will not, if promulgated, have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.11 In order to certify a rule under the RFA, the agency must have a "factual basis" for the certification and publish a statement providing that factual basis with the proposed rule. Based on the above concerns identified by repair station industry representatives at the roundtable, Advocacy is concerned that FAA's current RFA certification lacks a factual basis and is therefore improper.
Small entity representatives have identified numerous costs (outlined above) associated with the proposed rule that appear to have been omitted or understated. For this reason, Advocacy recommends that the agency reassess the validity of its RFA certification and consider preparing and publishing in the Federal Register for public comment a Supplemental IRFA, including a consideration of significant alternatives that would meet the agency's objectives in a less burdensome manner for small entities.12 Advocacy is mindful that FAA's proposed rule is intended to address important safety issues, and provides this recommendation both to ensure that small entity impacts are fully considered and to ensure that the agency's regulation is not delayed by having to correct an improper certification later in the process or because of a judicial challenge to any final rule.
In addition, Advocacy notes that while the SBA size standard for NAICS code 488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation) was $7 million or less in revenue in 2011, the latest edition of that size standard, effective October 1, 2012, is
$30 million or less in revenue13 (meaning that many more entities are now considered small). Also, it would have been helpful if FAA had assessed the impact of the rule on various sub-categories of small entities (in order to assess disproportionality among the regulated small entities) rather than simply averaging the impact. Further, Advocacy notes that economic impacts of greater than one percent of revenue can be considered significant under the RFA. Finally, Advocacy notes that the RFA specifically requires "the head of the agency" to provide any certification under the RFA;14 however, the RFA certification in the proposed rule is signed by the acting director of FAA's Flight Standards Service, not the head of FAA.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on FAA's proposed Repair Stations rule. One of the primary functions of the Office of Advocacy is to assist federal agencies in understanding the impact of their regulatory programs on small entities. In that regard, we hope these comments are both helpful and constructive to the agency's understanding of the industry, particularly the views of small entities. Please feel free to contact me or Bruce Lundegren at (202) 205-6144 or firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions or require additional information.
Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D.
Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Bruce E. Lundegren
Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Copy to: Boris Bershteyn, Acting Administrator
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
77 Fed. Reg. 30054 (May 21, 2012).
5 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.
Pub. L. 104-121, Title II, 110 Stat. 857 (1996) (codified in various sections of 5 U.S.C. §601 et seq.).
Executive Order 13272, Proper Consideration of Small Entities in Agency Rulemaking (67 Fed. Reg. 53461) (August 16, 2002).
77 Fed. Reg. 30056. (The current eight ratings include Airframe Class, Powerplant Class, Propeller Class, Radio Class, Instrument Class, Accessory Class, Limited Rating Specialized Service, and Limited Ratings. The proposed five ratings would include Airframe Category, Powerplant Category, Propeller Category, Component, and Specialized Services.)
77 Fed. Reg. 30072.
77 Fed. Reg. 30074. [Note: According to the current SBA Table of Size Standards, effective October 1, 2012, the current size standard for NAICS code 488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation) is $30 million or less in revenue. See, http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards_Table.pdf.]
77Fed. Reg. 30074.
5 U.S.C. 605 (b).
Advocacy defines a "significant" alternative under the RFA as one that: 1) is feasible; 2) meets the agency's underlying objectives; and 3) minimizes the impact on small entities. (See, A Guide to Federal Agencies, How to Comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, SBA Office of Advocacy, May 2012, p. 37-40, 71-74, available at https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rfaguide_0512_0.pdf.) 73 Fed. Reg. 64837.
See, http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards_Table.pdf.
5 U.S.C. 605(b).


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